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...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against show them what you’re for.

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
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Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and I wanted nothing more than to be sitting in that basket like ET with my glowing heart glowing right through my chest and my glowing finger pointing in the direction of our home.
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We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night.
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Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.
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What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.
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Love isn't always magic. But if I offered my body to the magician, if I told him to cut me in half so after that I could come to you whole and ask for you back would you listen for this dark alley love song? For the winter we heated our home from the steam off our own bodies?
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Everything but I LOVE YOU is small talk.
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But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever
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Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches, And soup, And peanut butter cookies, Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for you 'cause they grow peanuts in old cotton fields to clean the toxins out of the soil, But hey, you like peanutbutter and I like you!
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I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.
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You can have a cold war with yourself, even in the summertime
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I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.
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Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.
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You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.
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Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.
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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
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We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways, but you still have to call it a birthday.
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I have always been comfortable weathering the storm. I’d like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.
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A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.
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Do you know they found land mines in woman's souls.
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Someday we will dare to trade good for true
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